WEBVTT WHAT OR DOCUMENTS AREREVEALING ABOUT THIS WOMAN'SMENTAL HEALTH.CHERISE: THE AFFIDAVIT WRITTENBY THE RESPONDING OFFICER SHOWSSOME TRULY DISTURBING DETAILS.THEY WRITE THE MOTHER ACCUSED OFSTABBING HER LITTLE DAUGHTER WASSOMETIMES LAUGHING DURINGQUESTIONING.THEY SAY SHE ADMITTED TO HAVINGMENTAL HEALTH ISSUES DURINGTHEIR QUESTIONING.>> IT IS APPALLING TO ME.CHERISE: SHOCK AND SADNESS INTHIS NEIGHBORHOOD AFTER A 16MONTH OLD GIRL WAS STABBED ASALLEGEDLY AT THE HANDS OF HEROWN MOTHER.>> UPON ARRIVAL, THEY SPOKE TO ADESPOND AND WOMAN AND HERHUSBAND AND NOTICED A16-MONTH-OLD BLEEDING FROM THEBACK.THE CHILD HAD BEEN STABBED BYTHE MOTHER.CHERISE: THE MOTHER TOLDOFFICERS SHE WOKE UP IN THEMIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, TOOK HERHUSBAND'S UTILITY KNIFE AND WENTTO HER DAUGHTER'S GRIP WHERE SHETOLD OFFICERS SHE SAW A SHADOWAROUND HER CHILD'S SLEEPING BODYAND THAT IS WHEN SHE USED ITAGAINST HER DAUGHTER.HER HUSBAND CALLED POLICE AFTERSHE WOKE HIM UP AND SAID SHE HADCUT THEIR DAUGHTER.SHE APPEARED DISTRAUGHT THISMORNING.ACCORDING TO POLICE RECORDS, SHEWAS PRESCRIBED NEW MEDICATIONSTHIS MONTH FOR A MENTAL HEALTHDISEASE.NEIGHBORS ARE HOPING FOR THEBEST FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED.>> POOR THING.THE BABY AND THE PARENT TO DOSOMETHING LIKE THAT.CHERISE: THE MOTHER IN THIS CASEEVEN HAD INJURIES UP HER OWN.SEVERAL CUTS TO HER WRISTS THATSHE ADMITTED SHE HAD INFLICTEDON HERSELF EARLIER IN THE DAY.SHE IS CURRENTLY BEING HELDWITHOUT BAIL.

Evansgina Audy, 29, was charged with second-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child. Investigators said her husband found the bleeding child Wednesday night and called police.

Police said they were called to 1327 Candia Road in Manchester just before midnight.

"Upon arrival, they spoke to a despondent woman and her husband and noticed a 16-month-old was bleeding from the back. Paramedics (and) firefighters arrived on scene. The child had been stabbed by the mother," Lt. Brian O'Keefe said.

Audy told officers that she woke up in the middle of the night, took her husband's utility knife and went to her daughter's crib.

She said she saw a shadow around her child's sleeping body. She initially said she dropped the knife on her daughter, police said.

When pressed further, she said she saw the shadow move around the girl and "that's when I used it against, on my daughter."

Audy's husband called police after she woke him up and said she had "cut their daughter."

"The child, I believe, is still hospitalized," O'Keefe said. "I'm unsure at this time, but it appears to be a serious but non-life-threatening injury."

According to the affidavit, Audy had three recent lacerations on her right wrist, and she told police that she cut herself earlier in the day with a knife.

It also stated that Audy sometimes was sometimes laughing and chuckling during questioning. Police said she admitted to having mental health issues.

Audy's mother said that her daughter has been struggling with mental illness. She is being held on special watch at the jail, which means that officials consider her to be a possible risk to herself or others.

She looked distraught as she appeared via video feed in court Thursday morning.

According to police records, Audy was prescribed new medications this month for a mental helath disease.

Neighbors said they hope for the best for everyone involved.

"The poor thing, both the baby and the parent, to do something like that," Robert Dobzanski said. "So my thoughts and prayers are with both of them."

Audy is scheduled to be back in court Friday morning for a bail hearing.